Theme: Amazing Creatures Ideas / content we are “engineering” :
Pond habitat
Life cycle of a frog
Life cycle of an alligator
Body parts of a frog and an alligator
Testing News
F.A.I.R. is completed
Running records (Rdg. Levels) are underway; math test is under way
Reading Literacy
Reviewing all letters and sounds; introducing long vowel sounds
Reviewing sight words; All students should know all 40 sight words now
Ending sound combinations, blending and sound spelling
Other skills: Phoneme Isolation, blending and segmentation. Retelling and sequencing; recognizing text structure
Handwriting: writing first and last names; neatness
Capitalization of first words in a sentence and names; punctuation marks
We have 20 days of school remaining. Those are important 20 days. I need your help in keeping the children “contained”. They are tired and excited….and it’s starting to show in the behavior. Please help them understand “it’s not over until it’s over”.
May 2—Last book order of the year due
May 2—Disney Fife and Drum Corp visit
May 3—Administrative Assistants Day
Math Literacy
Unit 9: Amazing Creatures
IMPORTANT NOTE!
“In the News” at Mission Control?”
TESTING—End of the Year Testing has started
Working on “cementing” the number bonds to 10
Note: Parents, many children still do not know these bonds to automaticity. PLEASE work on the games/activities I sent home in the Homelearning packet! They need to know this before first grade!
HOMEWORK:
Practice sight words to automaticity (like “popcorn popping”)
Work on the number bonds to 10 (all the ways to make each number such as 10 = 10 and 0; 9 and 1; 8 and 2; 7 and 3; 6 and 4; 5 and 5; and all the inverses of those)
Work on making handwriting neat—using the lines, even spacing, correct formation of letters; write first and last name on all papers; write numbers to 20 in order and formed correctly
New Vocabulary words:
Reptile
Amphibian
Tadpole
Froglet
Oviparous
Activity Schedule: Monday: Media Tuesday: P.E. Wednesday: P.E. Thursday: Computer Friday: Art
Activity Schedule for Fourth Grading Period—to begin on Day 6, April 5, 2012. Day 1
Computer Lab
Day 2
Art
Day 3
Music
Day 4
Media
Day 5
P.E.
Day 6
P.E.
(This will be April 2nd, the day we return from Break.)
April 1
2
3
4
May 5
Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 8
9
10
11
12
6
1
7
3
4
6
Day 5 Day 6 Day 1 Day 2
Holiday
13
2
14
7
7
9
10
11
12
13
21
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
28
21
22
23*
24*
25*
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 15
16
17
18
19
20
Day 6 Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 22
23
24
25
26
27
Day 5 Day 6 Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 29
30 Day 4
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 *May 23, 24, 25 are shortened days
